The Original Indian Nations

[Uncle Russ]

Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books of today?
By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country.
But centuries ago, the land that is now the United States was a very different place.
Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.

FWIW: Growing up and going to school in El Paso, Texas, back in the 1940s and 1950s, it seems most of our Native American studies surrounded the Apache, Pima, Comanche, Pueblo, and Navajo, and the offspring of those larger Tribes just mentioned.

For instance, the Tegua and Ysleta Indians were a breakaway tribe of the Pueblo with their current home being in downtown El Paso, Texas.

Which leads me to wonder if any of this is taught in schools around the country today, and at what grade levels?

 

[Ohio Joe]

Interesting map Russ. I have an old atlas from the 1870's which shows the Indian Tribes and it points out the dangerous routes one may want to steer clear of to get from point A to B... I don't look at it very much as the pages are very fragile...

In school back in that Ohio country, we were taught about the tribes. I'm from the land of the Shawnee (around Lima on the map...) The little town of Waynesfield is not shown on this map, but it's about 10 - 12 miles south of Lima, then we were out in the country southwest of Waynesfield )... I expect it was Hog Creek we use to find all those arrow heads.



I couldn't say what the teachings are today. I guess it depends on what's politically correct to teach? I just don't know?